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Tom Reynolds was an extremely talanted artist and illustrator who played a vital part in the Pittsburgh comics (and music) scene for the four decades prior to his untimely 2025 passing. He published a number of comic book works, most notably (as “Tommy Gunn”) The Black Lion, in 1997. The amount of unpublished work, however is significantly greater. This 52 page, black & white, magazine size collection with a full color cardstock cover and print insert, collects both sketches and finished work. It represents only a fraction of his extant unpublished work, and is entirely taken from work created over the past ten years, much from projects he was working on at the time of his death and is an important piece of Pittsburgh comics history.
We've posted a modest gallery of images from the collection, HERE. Check it out.
Undiscovered by the Copacetic Comics Collector Archival Organization (CCCAO) at the time of the the publication of Return to Romance, the acquisition of this story created an earthquake in the Ogden Whitney Department, as it provides a key that unlocks access to the inner nature of the content of that extra layer of consciousness inserted into Whitney's stories: the dramatization, employing role playing, of the relationship between the social elements and formal qualities of gender construction, and the dynamic so engendered, articulated through comics.
In the thirteen, masterfully executed, power-packed pages of “Comic Valentine” – reproduced here in digest-size (5 1/2" x 8 1/2") from high resolution scans of the original comic book – the symbolic world of Ogden Whitney is revealed; plus an amazing one-pager as a back cover bonus! We couldn’t have asked for a better work for the launch of Copacetic Comics Classics. Look for future issues… eventually.
